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Disrupting Logistics: 4 Innovative Blockchain Startups to Watch in 2018

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Source: The Daily Dot. FreshTurf FreshTurf based in Singapore, is building a blockchain to manage last mile delivery transactions between retailers, logistics companies, and consumers. Singapore has a nationwide government network of delivery lockers where consumers can pick up their packages ordered online. trillion in 2023.

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The Green Corridor: Eating Into Our Future – Agricultural Emissions – What is Happening? What More Can be Done?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

She provided me with some main emission sources in that sector as well as what some companies are concentrating their reductions work on. Main sources are: Enteric fermentation of ruminant livestock during digestion. Down on the Farm I spoke to a contact of South Pole, who works a lot with the agriculture side of things.

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The Green Corridor: Full Circle – The Promise and Struggles of the Circular Economy and Green Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

A study by the University of Michigan in 2018 showed how a patty of plant-based Beyond meat compared to a regular US beef patty of meat. We can help business leaders by providing insight on the environment benefits or disadvantages of their different sourcing options to start with, but after that comes the physical moving of goods.

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Thomson Reuters purchased the global trade compliance vendor Integration Point in 2018. Many multinationals have engineered their global supply chains to minimize taxation by creating subsidiaries in low taxation nations like Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore. The Finance Department Tariffs are a form of taxes.

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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

However, Witron also conducts business outside of food and beverage, such as the development of a global distribution center for Pepperl+Fuchs in Singapore. Fortna’s framework includes consulting, design, planning, sourcing, implementation, and lifecycle services. Lee Partners. Lee Partners.

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Coronavirus Highlights Fragility of Global Supply Networks

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A businessman, who caught the virus at a conference in Singapore, was linked to several other cases. Since the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the last major epidemic to hit China, the country has become even more important as a source of key components and materials as well as finished consumer goods.

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Alternative Protein: A Food Manufacturers Guide [+ Case Study]

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Insect protein Insects are a highly nutritious, dense source of protein. But attitudes are shifting – evidence of insects’ nutritional value, alongside the efficiency and sustainability of farming them, is contributing to their rise in popularity as a food source. Innovative food manufacturers are creating novel plant-based goods.